Anyone been unlucky enough to collide with debris or other orbiting craft during their accent?

[THX1138]

Anyone been unlucky enough to collide with debris or other orbiting craft during their accent/burn for orbit? I've come within a few km of something zipping by. Given all the players and all the launches, it must happen to some people.

[Deutherius]

Unless you get really lucky and relative velocities small enough for the physics engine to even register a collision, the crafts will just pass through each other. Haven't tried spot on collisions at high speeds in 1.0 yet, but I'd guess it's going to be the same as before - really, really improbable and less spectacular than one would expect from orbital collision.

[jarmund]

It allmost happened to me today. I ejected the last stage so that the pod carrying Bill could right itself. The spent stage still had a lot of fuel in it, so it was quite heavy compared to the pod, and the pod took some time to right itself begause of a center of mass just slightly below its middle, so I started losing speed faster than the stage. I saw it coming around 1000m away, so to be sure I leaned the pod over to let the lifting body effect make sure i was clear of the debris. It missed me by maybe 200 meters. Would have been less if I hadn't moved over. Not sure about the relative velocity, but I'm guessing maybe ~50m/s.

Sidenote: Yes, by pods right themselves with the heatshield down:

- Slightly modded my install to turn physicssignificance on

- Under the pod I have a utility bay with some batteries. Useful, and it acts as ballast.

- Heat shield on bottom, chute on top.

= Works like a charm.

[Blu_C]

It has happened to me exactly once, but it was basically a freak incident. A lot of things need to be going on at the same time for this to happen:

1) You need to currently be 'controlling' one of the things, otherwise they will be on rails and will not hit each other.

2) You need to not be time warping. When you time warp physics is not enabled and the objects will just pass through each other (though ending time warp with them inside each other will make them both explode).

3) The orbits need to intersect.

In my case, it happened with a space plane that was launching satellites. I in a harmonic orbit with the plan to release the satellites and allow them to circularize under their own power. Left the space plane in the orbit for awhile to wait for the KSC to rotate to the ideal landing position and just as I was about to make a burn one of the comsats I'd launched on the mission came by and blew off the back half of the plane (and itself). Was really surprised, but since I hadn't changed the plane's orbit AT ALL I was pretty much asking for it. You'll notice, though, that I pretty much had to set myself up for it to happen.

[EBAO]

I actually set up a orbital impact. It took a bit of work but I managed to slam to stations together at 4,500m/s.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/116184-Two-stations-head-on-at-4-500-m-s

[RexKramer]

I had a lower stage slam into me from below a few times. Staged away the lower part so the lander could land normally, but left a little throttle in. At first, the thrust wasn't enough to arrest the descent of the lower stage, so it dropped away. A minute later, it ended up ascending, right into my lander.

[Slam_Jones]

I had a piece of debris pass within a few dozen meters of a station before. Possibly happened more than once, but I only noticed it one time.

Never collided with anything (that I wasn't intending on docking with) though.